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Thursday, August 9, 2012

TEPCO Wins Corporate Raspberry Award

The first-ever corporate raspberry award of
Japan, “Black Corporation Award,” went to Tokyo Electric Power Co. for its
forged radiation levels and irresponsible labor management among other wrong
doings. Besides TEPCO, nine other companies were nominated for the award for
having failed to carry out good labor practices. Other companies include
Watami, a bar/restaurant chain, Weather News Co and Fujitsu Social Science
Laboratory. After having more than 100,000 accesses to the homepage, people chose
Watami for the company with the worst labor practice. Watami and Weather News,
as well as other companies, have had their employees either dying from excess
work or committing suicide from work overload. (By MATSUMOTO Chie)